MY ENGLISH PROGRESS FROM 2013-2016- FINAL REFLECTION

Wow... Honestly it is difficult to realize that one more year has passed, faster than I could have imagined... But it's not a normal year as it is the last one. I can't believe such a huge stage of my life is about to end. I still remember my first day of first of ESO like it was yesterday and that's it, in just a few days it will be the last one of these 6 years of hard learning but also fun and knowledge of myself.

I consider that I have learned a lot English and my language is so much better than it used to be 6 years ago. When we started 4th of ESO I started this blog and looking to my older posts is when I realize all the knowling I have acquired. And I personally think it is a lot.

My first post in 4th of ESO was "My dreams", a simple speech in which I wasn't very confident on my language and the simplicity of the vocabulary actually surprises me a lot. I used very simple and short sentences because I was scared of showing my language weakness. Therefore, right now, even if I also make a lot of mistakes I'm more confident and I think I'm more fluid. My last post is about racism and in it I express myself in such a diferent way in comparison of the way that I used to express my thoughts before. I have improved considerably my vocabulary and I think the increasment of maturity is also very clear as my topics are much more complicated.

In my first oral presentation in 1st of Batxillerat I was very insecure and because of that fear of talking english in public my speech was dotted of a lot of erros but now, even if I still have a litte part of this fear I feel that I'm becoming everyday more and more fluid and I'm actually very happy with that, because learning english has always been one of my biggest dreams.

Well, it is clear that I have changed a lot in all these years and my English also has considerably evolutionated. I'm happy to have been able to leave all these toughts in my English blog because thanks to this, when I'll grow up I will be able to look to the past and see how I have changed.

I'm happy to have shared this years with you, teachers, a year with each one of you, with whom I have learned a lot and started becoming an adult.

RACISM: OPINION OF AN ACTUAL ISSUE

Racism has always existed and it has always been a scourge that has influenced our world and the relationship between diferent cultures and societies. 
Racism is characterized by prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination against what is different of you and your ethnicity. Racism is also influenced by the existence of an idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as inferior or superior.
Racism has always been the source of a lot of conflicts and it has always been a significant issue for governments to control as it is dangerous for society and because hatred that can come off of this conflict can influence the behavior of many people and cause actions that could lead to global catastrophes such as the Holocaust , a desastrous example that killed milions of people during the Second World War, and everything because of conflicts between opposed ethnicities. 
I personally think that racism is a tragedy and that us, humans, we should accept and love among ourselves such as we are, and not hating the differences that we might have.
Perhaps the fear and apprehension plays a fundamental role in the emergence of racism, but we shouldn't be carried away by fear and we should learn to know, reconcile and complement our differences, since after all each person is different and we are all different from each other, even people who are part of the same ethical group.
To finish I think sadly racism is a difficult problem to solve and that unfortunately always be present in some societies that have more difficulty to accept the differences of others, but I think we can all fight although it costs, and be united against this issue to not let it grow.

Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36210829

The news tells that the british band The Rolling Stones have told Donald Trump to stop using their music for his polytical campaign as he doesn't have the permission to use it. The band have issued a statement saying they haven't given permission to anyone to use their music and that Trump is asked to immediately cease unsing it. 

The band are not the first ones to protest agains the republican front-runner as a lot of other artists have also transmitted complains. For example, in February, Adele issued a statement distancing herself from Trump, after he had been playing Adele's hit Rolling In The Deep as his "warm-up" music at his rallies.

Human Rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms, which describe certain standards of human behavior, and are regularly protected as legal rights international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being," and which are "inherent in all human beings" regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. These rights are universal as they are applicable everywhere and at any time. 
Many of the basic ideas that animated the human rights movement were developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust, culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. There are currently 30 basic human rights. 

Personnaly a Human Right that I'm interested with is the "Freedom from Torture" as I think it is not respected as in a lot of subdeveloped countries torture is banalized and a lot of people is being tortured without any control or prevention from governements as they are sometimes interested in closing their eyes and leaving aside these issues to not get into trouble.

Spain: Abortion Bill Endangers Girls

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/18/spain-abortion-bill-endangers-girls

The spanish "Popular Party" is supposed to withdraw that would force girls of 16-17 years old to get the consent od their parents to finish a pregnancy. The bill is currently being examinated at the spain congress.

The rights groups said the draft legislation poses a serious threat to the health and sexual and reproductive rights of girls and creates unjustified barriers to safe and legal abortion. International human rights law recognizes that access to safe and legal abortions is fundamental to women and girls’ exercise of their human rights, including the rights to life, freedom from discrimination, equality, health, and privacy.

Current Spanish law requires 16 and 17-year-olds to inform their legal representatives, but does not require the consent of those representatives. The current law removes even the notification requirement when there is the possibility notification could provoke a serious conflict or family violence, threats, coercion, abuse, or abandonment.

Personally I think that in most of the cases women should be able to decide themselves if they wanna keep a baby or not, before of keeping it and be a bad mother leaving aside your child.

HABIT OF READING

The fact of reading is known for its benefits and for its relevance when it comes to develop a clear and healthy mind. Reading at a young age is really advisable because of all the good aspects that it can apport to a young person, such as the development of an important and smart vocabulary, a facility of speech and an important general knlowledge that sometimes people who haven't had read in their lifes don't have.

In my personal case, my parents have alwys told me that reading is very important and since I was a child I have always read a lot. When I was like 10-11 yeard old I really discovered the reading and my major hobby at that time was reading, as I read a lot and a lot of different types of literature.

Unfortunately, in the past years I have significantly reduced my consumption of books and I don't read as much as I used to. I do read sometimes but not as I much as I would like to, and I really hope that I will recover this healthy habit very soon.

I think that reading, leaving aside the good aspects that it has in our health, is also an actual way to escape of our day to day to live in some way new experiences and discover a lot of new things, as a book is really a huge box of surprises and you never know what you can find inside one. Therefore, I consider that in some cases a book is really able to change your life and your way to see life, so that's why reading is so important, because it can apport you things that you would never imagined.

VEGETARIANISM

Vegetarianism, the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat, is growing more and more everyday and it is acquiring a lot of new followers. Even though this practice often receives a lot of criticism, mostly because some people think the consumption of meat is necessary for the healthy development of the body, especially at younger ages, it is evolving positively and our society is starting to accept it as a normal thing and not as a weird habit anymore.
Personally I totally support the cause of having to stop eating meat mostly because of the treatment that animals receive in their lifes to then be killed. They live in inhuman situations, just because this business is just looking to win more and more money, leaving aside the animals and what they might be feeling.
Currently I am still eating meat but not as more as I used to. I avoid the most as I can eating red meat and also chicken, but if I have to eat some I do it. I really think that one day I'll finish by being a vegetarian because everyday I feel more and more disgusted by meat and I think it is not going to stop and I'll have to put and end to my consumption of meat. Even though, I totally respect people that loves eating meat as this is their decision and I don't have anything to say about that because everyone is free to eat what they want, but I do think that they should be more carefull when it comes to buy it, because there are producers that sell meat which have been well developed in a healthy way but producers that unlike this raise animals without having any consideration for their health and using horrible methods to make them grow as quick as they can.